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Guns of December: Have the Apologists For Slaughter Finally Gone Too Far?
“It’s no secret that women are now engaging in hunting and the shooting sports in record numbers. My wife Susan and I are especially excited about the immediate success of the NRA Women’s Network,”...
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House broken: How the GOP legislative machine turned into a doomsday device
If it wasn’t already obvious, the past few weeks surely have made it so: The House of Representatives has collapsed. Sure, the buildings are still there: The chamber in the right-hand wing of the...
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Lives of the party: Looking past Obama for a progressive Democratic coalition
I think it’s fair to say that the outcome of the latest battle in America’s endless fiscal war hasn’t done anything to improve President Obama’s image with what Paul Wellstone used to call the...
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Of Blazing Saddles and platinum coins: Why minting a $1 trillion one is...
By now I'm sure you’ve probably heard more than you want to know about the platinum coin—although if you like learning fancy new words, you have to admit, “seignorage” is a pretty cool one. But I want...
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Obituary
Died, after long struggle with infectious reality, Hastert Rule: For the second time this month, Boehner broke the Hastert Rule. The issue was Hurricane Sandy relief, a follow-up vote to a smaller...
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Jack Lew and the premature descent from heaven: A tale of the American...
“As a reward for a quarter-century of patiently fulfilling their duties, career bureaucrats may expect a second career as . . . an executive of a large firm or bank. Their delayed rewards as amakudari...
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Mea Culpa
Now that we’ve reached the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, it seems only fit and proper that those of us who opposed the war from the very beginning explain how our errors in judgment led us to...
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Insider Threats: Desperately Seeking Winston Smith
In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on...
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Heroes of the motherland: How the NSA won the war in Iraq (or wants you to...
“Under Andropov, the KGB grew noticeably in political power, in personnel, and even in the number of buildings its occupied . . . Andropov was probably not deliberately pursuing any evil goals and was...
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Good morning. My name is [name redacted] and I'm from the extremely beautiful state of South Carolina. I intern for Republican Senator Tim Scott. I've had the pleasure of coming into different offices...
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Help! Police!
Two women, as shown in a Texas state trooper’s dash cam recording, are probed in their vaginas and rectums by a glove-wearing female officer after a routine traffic stop near Dallas. A few days later,...
View ArticleWhat's Past Is Prologue . . .
“We have not yet made a decision.” Barack Obama August 28, 2013“I've not made up our mind about military action.” George W. Bush March 6, 2003 . . .What to come in yours and my discharge. Shakespeare...
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